Joseph Stalin

A government where the ruler or ruling group has complete control. An example of totalitarian in the phrase "totalitarian regime" which means a rule where the ruler has total authority over everyone. Totalitarian governments came to power because they kill people. Also Totalitarian regimes kill a greater number of foreign citizens. In general, the more totalitarian a government is, the more likely they will kill people. The more totalitarian regimes kill greater number of people. The more…

From the late 1920s to the middle 1940s, Joseph Stalin reigned the Soviet Union. In the painting by Jackson, Stalin embodies the man eating earth and all of his victims embody the earth itself. In his early years, Stalin was not his name…

Many archetypes stand out when contemplating what type of person the "Man of Steel" was. Far from a hero, closer to the villain, but definitely a mass manipulator. This, more so, because of how he used his power to brainwash his entire union. Starting from the lowest point growing up, to gaining all the power and ability to kill anyone he pleased with the snap of a finger. Juvenile Iosif… began his life underprivileged and emotionally damaged. He was born into a family of neglect, which most…

Power can corrupt a leader towards his society. Throughout history some leader have shown their power have pushed to corruption and cruelty to their citizens. In the drama, ¨Antigone¨ written by sophocles and translated by Robert Fagles, Creon astonishingly became leader with the death of Eteocles and Polynices both the next heirs to the throne. Creon quick ascendance to the throne, his good judgment was blinded with power and money that came with the leadership of Thebes. In the autobiography,…

Horror by Paranoia In late 1934, Stalin launched a campaign of political terror, otherwise know as the Great Purge. After Lenin’s death in 1924 Stalin maneuvered his way up the political ranks until he became the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (History.com Staff). Under his leadership came a period of terror across Russia. The Great purge, 1934 to 1939, was an unjust era of false persecution, high police surveillance, suspicion of saboteurs…

WW2. And just a few days ago, on June 24, 1948, Russian dictator Joseph Stalin set up a blockade right on the center of Berlin, cutting off the escape route for the people fleeing towards the area controlled by the U.S. As a leader, Stalin is a very selfish man. He wanted to expand his empire, and he will stop at nothing to accomplish it. He knew his former allies wouldn’t want to start a another war, and he used that advantage. Stalin decides to build a physical border to control who gets in…

to command their citizens. Dictators for example are, Louis XIV of France and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union. The work done by these dictators and their political systems had major consequences on their citizens and their countries. Louis the XIV of France exercised the finances of France, increased the size of the French military, and removed the Edict of Nantes from French society to solidify his power. Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union in Russia used propaganda to limit information,…

malicious leaders killed millions of people to satisfy their paranoia, resolve their hatred, and stress their political views. Both Hitler and Stalin killed millions of their own people because of their immoral political views. Hitler’s “opponents”, meaning all non-Aryans and Jews were killed because of Hitler’s hope to create the perfect country. Meanwhile, Stalin let his “opponents”, including millions of peasants and kulaks (land owning peasants), die of starvation and even had thousands…

Joseph Stalin was a terrible person. In his rise to power, Stalin ordered many people to be killed before he got his power, while he was in power, and Joseph Stalin killed many people in his purges or mass killings. Most people died in his purges because he was paranoid that they could take away his power. For instance one of his purges was on the Red Army where 30,000 people died. Some of them died because he was paranoid that they would start a revolution and take his power. Another example…

once Joseph stalin took over he had a new plan which was totalitarian which is when the government utilize total control over every aspects of a citizen's private and public life. While joseph stalin had power the people in russia were suffering tremendously from starvation and that caused massive deaths in Russia. Stalin made established collective farms and eliminated the wealthy peasants , he made industrial…